Word: telegrapher
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...wonder then that Fleet Street's proprietors are trying to pare expenses by modernizing plants and cutting work forces. One owner whose efforts foundered is Lord Hartwell, whose family has run the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1.2 million) since 1928. In June Hartwell assembled a $156 million package to pay for both modern printing plants and severance for hundreds of his workers. Faced with a money squeeze this month, Hartwell sold a 35% stake to Hollinger Argus, Ltd., a Toronto-based mining firm owned mostly by Conrad Black, a Canadian tycoon whose holdings range from radio stations to supermarkets. Black...
Many of Fleet Street's newspapers, including the Telegraph, plan to occupy larger offices and computerized plants in east London's docklands area beginning next year. Murdoch, who also owns the Times, had hoped to move his Sun and News of the World there this fall, but union intransigence delayed the plans. Robert Maxwell, head of the Mirror Group of newspapers, has been more persuasive. After threatening to shut down his papers, Maxwell announced that the unions had agreed to lay off one-third of his newspaper group's 6,000 staffers. All eyes now are on Eddie Shah...
Though he is now nearly 96, Albright can recall what he did next. "I went right down to the postal telegraph office and sent Mather a night letter: 'Park Service bill signed nine o'clock last night. Have pen used by President in signing...
...Ethernet, a system first devised eleven years ago by Xerox and adopted by such companies as Digital Equipment and Intel. Ethernet already has 30,000 users and costs only about $500 per connection, compared with the $800 that IBM is expected to cost. Another competitor, American Telephone and Telegraph, has introduced three networks...
Government Procurement Policies. Governments are among the biggest customers | in world trade, and they almost always favor the home team. Westerners have long complained that Japan's state-owned Nippon Telephone and Telegraph bought relatively little equipment from foreign firms. Now that two-thirds of NTT is being sold to private investors, the government has pledged that outsiders will be able to sell more products to the company. Last week NTT announced its first major cooperative agreement with a U.S. corporation: a joint venture with IBM to build a complex computer network in Japan...